"I'd better wait!" Xue Yao shamelessly walked back to the courtyard, pretending to talk to the palace maid, but in fact shouting towards the side hall, "What is His Highness busy with? Aiya, I haven't seen His Highness for so many days, I really can't wait, can Auntie be a little more accommodating and let me go in to talk to His Highness?"
The words have just been spoken--
[Congratulations: Lu Qian's sense of security is increased by 3.]
Xue Yao: "......"
The little fat cub was simply lying on the door listening to him move, right?
The courtesan looked coldly: "His Highness is busy, if Mr. Xue doesn't want to abide by the rules, he should wait for Lady Xi to come back and then beg again, how would a slave girl have the guts to let you in? Who would be responsible for angering His Highness?"
It was not easy for the young prince to quit relying on Xue Yao, and the courtesans couldn't wait for him to return to the palace to see the prince.
It's time to change the man in front of the master.
Xue Yao was very sober, the system prompt just now had already exposed the truth about the little fat cub's temper tantrum.
Obviously, the Seventh Prince was hoping that he would show weakness and ask for an audience at this moment, and would not be angered by this.
Thus, Xue Yao continued to shamelessly lament, "But I just want to see Your Highness!"
[Land dive security plus 1.]
Xue Yao was so happy to hear this prompting that she immediately opened her voice to play the rogue: "I want to see His Highness! I can't wait a moment longer! Quickly let me in! Let me in!"
The increasing security value that kept ringing in his head made Xue Yao smile evilly and do whatever he wanted, hardening his heart to break into the side hall!
Several palace maids and eunuchs scrambled forward to stop them.
"Lord Xue! His Highness said he won't see guests! You're out of your mind! Mr. Xue!"
Right at this moment, behind the eunuch, the door of the side hall was slowly pulled open by the eunuchs inside the hall.
The seventh prince's calm and lazy voice also followed from the door, "Noisy."
Upon hearing this, a group of slave girls hurriedly turned back to greet her.
Xue Yao disregarded the etiquette, quickly stepped around the eunuchs and maids, and looked with wide eyes at the little chubby boy he hadn't seen in two months!
A sour warmth surprisingly welled up in my heart, "Why has Your Highness lost some weight? Has he grown taller again?"
Xue Yao walked over and gestured at the top of the chubby cub's head.
The Seventh Prince, however, did not answer the question, and slowly took two steps back, distancing himself from the "Jaded Little Companion", leaning against the door with a face of indifference, and raising his chin in a vengeful manner, he said, "His Highness is busy with business, and does not have time to accompany Yaoyao."
Xue Yao puffed.
Because he had left His Highness behind on the grounds of business, the little fat cub had come up with a move to return the favor, and he was indeed vindictive enough to hold a grudge!
Of course, the truth can't be poked and prodded. The fat pups are growing up and getting to know how to save face.
Xue Yao pursed her lips and smiled as she popped over to the door, standing in front of the Seventh Prince, playing the rogue: "Yao Yao has finished her business and wants to accompany Your Highness, Your Highness is busy with your own, let me watch from the side, okay?"
[Land dive security plus 1.]
The Seventh Prince snorted coldly and looked away, "Master doesn't need it."
"Pfft ......," Xue Yao panicked and covered her mouth.
The system has betrayed you Your Highness! Don't pretend!
"What are you laughing at?" The Seventh Prince's gaze flickered, super fierce, as he stared at the Jaded Little Companion.
"It's nothing, it's just that I'm especially happy to see Your Highness, and it's not in vain that I returned to you as soon as I entered the palace."
"Humph." The Seventh Prince didn't look away, indifferently poking through the desperate little companion's lie: "First I looked for Sixth Brother, then I went to the Crown Prince's Palace and traveled around half of the Harem-"
The Seventh Prince steeply turned his head to stare at Xue Yao, "Finally remembered master?"
Xue Yao drew in a breath of cool air, "How did you ...... you know that I went to the Crown Prince's Palace?"
The Seventh Prince gave a beat, his shallow pupils turned, and he raised his hand to point at the group of eunuchs, "They said so."
Eunuchs: "......"
What? We've never been out of the hall. How do we know where His Highness's chaperone has been?
Forget it. Whatever His Highness says is fine!
Xue Yao turned his head to look at the group of eunuchs with some surprise in his heart.
His own journey was simply flying back and forth, and he didn't expect this group of eunuchs to be able to follow him all the way without saying a word, and still be able to rush back to the palace to tell the Seventh Prince before he arrived at the Green Vault Palace.
These eunuchs are simply real people!
What to do!
"I went to the Sixth Prince's palace because I wanted to see how well the rabbit that His Highness gave me was being raised." Xue Yao thought of an excuse on a whim.
"Rabbits?" The Seventh Prince narrowed his eyes and suspiciously glanced slightly sideways at the rabbit that was grazing in the small wooden cage in the side hall.
This silly white rabbit, long ago was retrieved by His Highness from the dining room rabbit nest, how could it be in the Sixth Brother's palace?
"Yeah! That little white rabbit that His Highness gave me!" The unknown Xue Yao gleefully bragged, "I really love that rabbit! All these days out of the capital, I've been worrying about it in my heart ......"
"Being popped by green peppers?" The Seventh Prince picked up.
"How could that be!" Xue Yao denied it, "I never thought of eating the rabbit that Your Highness pulled out for me! That rabbit and I hit it off, we haven't seen each other for two months, and as soon as it saw me, it was so excited that it wouldn't even eat grass and hopped around!"
"Scared, are you?" The Seventh Prince questioned.
"It wasn't! It likes me!" Xue Yao beat a dead horse and refused to admit her true emotional state with the rabbit, "I even rubbed its fur just now, and it was so good, it especially kissed me."
The Seventh Prince narrowed his eyes and questioned, "Is that so?"
"Of course!" Xue Yao had a loving face, "I'll definitely raise him properly and find him a male rabbit so he can have a litter of baby bunnies."
The Seventh Prince was silent for a moment and said softly, "It is male."
"Huh?" Meeting His Highness's disappointed eyes, Xue Yao was just about to admit her mistake and pat and coax the little chubby cub, when the eunuch's voice came from outside the courtyard -
"Mr. Xue, His Highness the Crown Prince invites you to come forward to receive your reward!"
Xue Yao turned his head to look out of the temple door, "Now?"
The eunuch replied, "The Empress has already known of your achievements, and is now anxious to meet the great meritorious official who raised the grain!"
It turned out that the Empress had gone to the Prince's Palace to see her son.
Xue Yao's side hadn't yet coaxed the little chubby cub and had a difficult face.
The Seventh Prince was not a reasonable little fatty, and as soon as he heard that the Crown Prince was going to take away Silly Yao Yao, his little face immediately sank and he let out a threatening little purr at Xue Yao.
With a look of despair on his face, and unable to keep the Empress waiting, Xue Yao could only fold his hands and apologize to the Seventh Prince, "I will definitely be back soon!"
After saying that, also do not dare to wait for the seventh prince pinch flat milk box osmanthus cake or something, hurriedly with the eunuch left the green dome hall.
[Warning of land-diving security reduced by 7.]
Come on, all that coaxing was for nothing, Xue Yao was in tears!
*
The Prince's Palace.
The eunuchs led Xue Yao into the main hall, there were quite a few palace maids in the hall, all of them were quiet and silent, better trained than those in the other concubines' palaces.
The Queen is a very serious and observant person.
Because the color of the clothes is not the rules, the Queen has been the most favored Shi Fei, but also because of the teachings of the children, the most powerful Tong Fei, other concubines naturally not less than a variety of rules and regulations have been punished.
The concubines in the harem privately mocked the Empress for not being favored by the Emperor and had to rely on tossing the concubines to confirm her position.
Xue Yao had met the Empress before, but had not spoken.
Because Consort Shio didn't like the Empress, he didn't have a good impression of the Empress, the feeling of an archaic noblewoman.
At this moment, the Empress was sitting in the eunuch's chair in the main north of the hall, watching Xue Yao follow the eunuch as he approached, and without waiting for him to salute, she raised her hand to dispense with the salute and let him sit down to talk.
The Crown Prince sat in the eunuch chair to the right of the Empress and looked at Xue Yao with an expressionless face.
The Crown Prince was also nervous in front of his mother.
The Crown Princess stood with a straight waist at the Empress's side, keeping an eye on her mother-in-law's demeanor and ready to serve tea and water, like an untrained little courtesan.
Such an atmosphere made Xue Yao somewhat depressed.
The Crown Princess rarely shows up in the harem and has a very low presence, probably because she is afraid that she will do something wrong and mess up the rules and make the Empress angry.
That the Empress and the Crown Princess do not get along with their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is a gossip that has been circulating in the Harem for a long time.
Prince Consort this year twenty years old, the State House origin, character and appearance is not to be picked, upright figure is only half a head shorter than the Prince, standing in a pile of courtesans, simply stand out of the crowd.
Her appearance was dignified, but she was permeated with a bit of sultriness that was rare among imperial concubines, and as a rule, she was very pleasing to men.
She had been married to the Crown Prince for three years, had two miscarriages, and had yet to give birth to a son or daughter, which made the Empress unhappy.
Xue Yao is not sure how the Crown Prince and Crown Princess feel about each other, but she knows that the Crown Prince refused to set up a side consort for three years of marriage in order to make the Crown Princess pregnant with his firstborn son, which made the Empress, who was eager to have a grandchild, even more dissatisfied.
"Truly a hero out of a young man." The Empress took a good look at Xue Yao's youthful face and sighed in surprise, "Jin An just said that you are a young man who is less than eighteen years old, I still can't imagine how a young man could have such a strategy, but now that I have seen you, I don't dare to believe it any more."
Xue Yao hurriedly got up and humbled himself, pressing the credit towards the Crown Prince.
The Queen's face became more and more appreciative, and then she announced the reward, and the exit was one thousand taels of silver, plus one hundred silks.
That's a lot of money to go out on a limb.
Xue Yao was taken aback and hurriedly pushed that he couldn't afford it.
The Empress insisted on rewarding him heavily, and afterward asked curiously about what she had seen on this trip to Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
The crown prince immediately ordered the handicrafts bought back from Jinling Hangzhou to be carried into the palace, and took them out for the mother to play with, and also let the mother pick the favorite handicrafts first, and the others were distributed to the various palace brides.
Empress has not been to Jiangsu and Zhejiang for many years, the heart is very curious, took the palace maid handed over the small objects, one by one to play ornamental, praise.
Seeing that the Queen Mother was having fun, the Crown Prince gently walked to the right side of the luggage wooden box, bent down and took out a finely crafted floral hairpin from a hidden compartment, walked over to the Crown Princess, and handed it to her, but did not say a word.
Prince Consort saw that hairpin circumference decorated with ceramic firing small cinnamon flowers, face immediately skipped surprise, raised his eyes to look at the crown prince, originally dignified and mute look, in this brief moment, become flavorful, but did not speak out to thank.
The young couple didn't say a word, just exchanged silent glances that were nonetheless keenly captured by the Queen.
"What precious hairpin, purposely hidden in a secret compartment, can you show this palace?"
The flirtatiousness on the Crown Princess's face instantly transformed back into terrified mute as she hurriedly held the hairpin and bowed down to hand it to the Empress.
The Empress picked up the hairpin and looked at it, nonchalantly giving the Crown Princess a light smile, "Isn't this your favorite osmanthus flower? The Crown Prince is really attentive to you, more than ten years ago, this palace also received hibiscus flowers picked by his own hands."
These words are alluding to the fact that the Crown Prince "has a daughter-in-law and has forgotten his mother", and that the only hairpin that was prepared was one for the Crown Princess.
But when men buy head and face jewelry, most of them give it to their wives and concubines.
Empress like hibiscus flowers, should also point to the emperor has this intention, there is no reason to stare at the son and daughter-in-law every day.
Blame it on the fact that the Emperor's heart went to Princess Shio.
Just because the Queen's years are gone doesn't mean that the part of her heart that belongs to a woman is also gone.
Loneliness and aggression can not be said, in the Queen's heart gradually turned into a bitter sour taste, so that she can not even look at her son's favorite wife.
In her eyes, all proper wives should teach their children and generously tolerate their husbands favoring their concubines.
Where are the men who are truly long-suffering?
Why should this daughter-in-law, who can't produce a child, still enjoy her son's sole favor?
Lu Jinan simply doesn't look like the Emperor's seed!
The Empress handed the hairpin back to the Crown Princess and spoke in a pretense of loving kindness, "This time Jin'an turned out to be safe thanks to the Bodhisattva's blessing, tonight you will go to the Buddha Hall and copy two scriptures to be sincerely thankful."
The Prince frowned slightly.
The Crown Princess, however, immediately nodded and took the order.
The Queen showed a look of relieved contentment, thinking that she had spoiled the good fortune of this good-natured daughter-in-law.
Leaving her husband, whom the Crown Princess had been holding on to for two months, alone for the night.
Where can the young and vigorous Crown Prince eat this kind of torture, if he can favor one or two maidservants, it should be.
The Empress played well as she wished, where does she know that Lu Jinan's little bit of compassion for his wife was initially because of the mother's tossing of this daughter-in-law.
Prince Consort married the Prince when, just full seventeen, body bones delicate and thin, the doctor repeatedly urged to adjust a year, but because the Queen is anxious to hold grandchildren, a year after the marriage, miscarriage twice.
Prince was originally busy with political affairs, not interested in the wind and moon, hard to be this bitter little girl rubbed the heart and liver, gradually have a husband's sense of responsibility.
Xue Yao looked at the hidden fireworks of this family of three and marveled slightly in his heart.
In the original, the Crown Princess barely appeared a few times, let alone the portrayal of her and the Crown Prince's conjugal love.
The few times the Crown Princess occasionally appeared was still after the death of the Abolitionist Crown Prince in battle.
At that time, the third prince ascended to the throne, and while Consort Tong was made empress dowager, the empress was sent to the Cold Palace.
The Crown Princess does not believe that the Abolitionist Prince died in battle and has been dutifully caring for her mother-in-law in the Cold Palace.
Later, after King Ning rebelled and seized the throne, he re-interred the abrogated prince.
On the day the tomb was moved, the Abolished Crown Princess, with strength she didn't know where, actually broke through the heavy guards and ran to the Abolished Crown Prince's coffin, ecstatically embracing the coffin and whispering, "Your Highness has come back, and I know that you won't go back on your word."
After saying that, she relied on the coffin and slowly collapsed on the ground, actually took poison and martyred herself.
When Xue Yao read the book, she didn't have much of an impression of this abolished Crown Princess because of the lack of foreword padding, and also because she felt that ancient women were simply inexplicably infatuated.
Now that he was in it, he could actually feel the Prince Consort's hidden adoration for the Crown Prince that was hard to hide with every knit of his brows and smile through the air.
It seems that her final martyrdom was no accident.
However, the eyes of the Crown Prince towards the Crown Princess did not see much infatuation and adoration, but more like pity.
Alas, the Crown Prince and the Sixth Prince are all masters who can love people, why is it that his family's Seventh Prince ......
Xue Yao thought in despair about the little fat cub's angry little purr, and still didn't know what kind of Long Ao Tian's shocking wrath he would have to face when he went back on this trip!